Various copies of the video were available on Telegram, which has played host to far-right chats since 8chan was taken down in August. Mega executive chairman Stephen Hall told Newsroom the video was taken down within three minutes of the site being notified about its presence. The video was also available on Kim Dotcom-founded Mega.NZ, CEP researchers said. The link to the file was shared on a far-right, Twitter-like service called Gab. zip file and uploaded to the file sharing service, had been accessible since March 15, 2019.

We take these issues very seriously and we remove files violating these policies when flagged by our users.'ĬEP researchers told Newsroom the video, which had been compressed into a. In a statement, a Google spokesperson said the company 'has clear policies that prohibit violence and terrorist content.

The study found footage of the Christchurch terror attack is accessible on at least 14 different websites, ranging from far-right messageboards to encrypted chat apps like Telegram to Google Drive. Researchers at the Counter Extremism Project have identified at least 14 different websites where footage of the Christchurch terror attack can be accessed, a year after the shootings took place, Marc Daalder reportsĪ study from researchers at the Counter Extremism Project, a non-profit organisation that targets extremists of all stripes, shows the difficulty of ever fully scrubbing something from the internet. Terror in Chch Mosque attack video still online

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